I am in the process of writing a long post about the executive program on Customer-Focused Innovation that a group of us led at Stanford earlier in the month, a joint venture between the Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. As I was thinking about what the participants in that program did, I realized how closely it mapped the principles of design thinking that Diego Rodriguez and Executive Director George Kembel drew out on a napkin about 18 months ago (Of course, this was about 50th prototype, in the spirit of design thinking). I think it is lovely thing. As a matter of fact, as Diego and I have been discussing lately, these are really principles for turning designing thinking into action, not just ways of thinking.
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Plus, we wrote it on a napkin from Peet's down the street from where George lived.
It's authentic.
Posted by: Diego Rodriguez | November 27, 2006 at 12:57 PM
Bob - you hang on and frame that napkin. I"ve been especially priveleged to be involved in a few of those. One the founding of one the larger 3PLs in the late 80s, another that led to the first B2B published framework for the extended enterprise and a large tech companies e-Bizz strategy. Didn't know what I had at the time so didn't keep 'em but I"d give my eye teeth for 'em know - especially with all the blood they gathered later. They're as much battle honors as any.
Dave
Posted by: dblwyo | November 26, 2006 at 03:00 PM